Iravatee Majgaonkar, Abi Tamim Vanak

Frontline | August 13, 2024

Urban Indians are mostly unaware that India has a population of gray wolves, a threatened species in threatened ecosystems. Some 10 per cent of India’s landmass is covered by ecosystems known as Open Natural Ecosystems (ONEs), habitats to species such as wolves, with a dry climate and sparse tree cover. Questions around the conservation of Indian wolf populations in ONEs such as grasslands are anything but straightforward.